Politics Report with new details on Israel pager attack in Lebanon

According to a media report, the communication devices that exploded in September, killing or injuring mainly members of the Shia militia Hezbollah, came from Israel. The pagers and radios, which looked like devices from companies in the Far East, were developed by the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad and secretly manufactured in Israel, reported the Washington Post, citing unnamed Israeli, Arab and US security services. There was initially no official confirmation of the report.

Both hands on the pager during the explosion

The batteries of the pagers had been prepared with high-explosive explosives that were virtually undetectable, the newspaper continued. They had been detonated by an encrypted message. To decode the message, two buttons had to be pressed at the same time - to injure both hands if possible and thus incapacitate the recipient.

Hezbollah had only been distributing the AR924 pagers to its members since February. The cell phone precursors cannot be used to make calls, but they can be used to receive messages. From Hezbollah's point of view, their advantage was that they could not be located like cell phones.

The walkie-talkies, which were detonated shortly after the pagers, had been in use by Hezbollah since 2015 and provided Israel with real-time information from the organization.

Hezbollah had bought the pagers from the employee of a Taiwanese company, who did not know that the devices actually came from Israel and had been prepared with explosives.

Most of the victims were Hezbollah members

At least 39 people were killed in the explosions and around 3,000 were injured, some of them seriously. The majority of the victims were Hezbollah members. However, there were also civilian victims.

Since the terrorist attack by Hamas and other extremist groups on southern Israel almost a year ago, Hezbollah, which is allied with Iran, has been attacking Israel with rockets and grenades out of "solidarity" with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as it says. This will continue until there is a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

SDA